The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-27
THE Hon. CARL SCHUgZ
CaAPING UNDER THE ENFORCED
IDLENRss OCCASI0NRD
By the Accident OF q Few Weeks
AgO-What "Gath" Has to
Say OF Him.

account OF his accident, not merely
because of the pain and illness and
of the enforced rest which is so
onerous to man Of intellectual &C
tivity, but because he is apprehen-
sive that it may lame him for the
future. SchurZ is one Of those am
bilious men who started at school
with illimitable aspirations, con-
scious of certain abilities, particular
ly in expression, and also conscious
of his determined powers of appli-
cation. Such men, who begin in
youth to think that the whole world
is within their reach, cannot but be
unhappy as time goes on and they
drop TO the level of human natures
limitations, finding that great masses
of men are not to be coerced by indi-
vidual appeals, nor even by dex.er-
Gus systems based upon the idea of
self respect. The science of govern
ment, indeed, is not to control men
easily controlled, but to control that
huge multitude which is impatient
under any personal leadership or set
of rules. In no part of the world
could Mr.. Schurz have developed as
fast as he has done here; yet he is
net satisfied.
Had Germany continued to be
series Of small States he might, like
Goethe, have become the Chancellor
of one of them, but he never had
the literary abilities, especially the
imagination, to distinguish himself
beyond the social bounds of such a
State, His literary performances in
this country, however interesting
they have been as he stood upon his
feet and debate /, do not enter into
the permanent literature of the
country more than other school
books or treatises. He undertook to
make Republican Germany and
overthrow the barriers to a peasant
born mans progress. 70 that Ger
many has come at last by ways he
VOTED not OF, and it does not appre-
ciated his fugitive kind of loyalty
which obeys when it sees fit, but not
otherwise.
Bismarck started with the idea
that he was a subject; that he was
of the descent of the old knights
who made the Kingdom of Prussia,
and that as knight his fealty was
due to his kind. He therefore
ROUNDED GERMANY INTO AN EN-
and obliterated the smaller States in
way more natural to the people of
that land, and Mr.. Schurz himself
exemplifies in this country the
shrewdness of Bismarck view, for
he was one of the leaders of our revo-
luton, as Of that of 1913, and yet he
is not much more today than an
effervescent critic of things as they
pass, generally deciding against his
own constituent body, and yet not
winning the affections Of any other
class. lie possesses the quality Of
being taught by any other country
than that in which he lives. In Eng
land he was not especially warm ad-
mirer OF men or events there, but
when he came to America he began
to incline toward English leadership,
and, therefore, he has grown further
and further away from Germany,
which is such a kingdom as Crom-
well established by the aid of his Iron
sides, and after it was created the
protective laws of Cromwell nodded
the British into a maritime nation.
Such sailors as Raleigh were hard
ly more than freebooters attacking
Spanish commerce; Cromwell pro-
duced men like Blake who went out
and captured large colonies like ia
a'ca, and then looking for advant-
age rather than conditional resent
ments; Oromwell's government
ruled out the Dutch from the carry
ing trade of England. In the same
way Bismarck, having brought Ger
many around the center Of Prussia
and beat the French, is no longer
troubling himself about the French,
but is seeking for plantations for the
Germans, which shall absorb the
manufactures of Germany. As
Cromwell aimed to bring together
the Protestant powers of Europe, SC
Bismarck aims to collect under one
shelter the Germanic peoples and
States.
Mr.. Schurz was the young hero OF
America quarter OF century past
almost the only German orator Of
national repute, Major General and
a Foreign Minister. These honors
so rapidly attained in his compare.
tive youth made him mark on both
sides of the ocean. He was not strong
in action, however, as is the case
generally with literary minded PEG.
pie, and was disposed to be a com.
palmer chiefly at the amount of ma
terial consideration he received, ant
incidentally
A CRITIC OF HIS OWN ASSOCIATES
There was a grumbling nature il
his bowels, which forever rumbleC
when he was not declaiming on the
public stump. Goethe used the lit
tie court of Weimar to think out the
long problems of his Imagination anC
to concentrate them at last into tn,
durable forms of literature. SchurE
while attempting to direct events
has been thrown hither and thithel
by them like cork upon tn,
waters. He has an idea tina
the world can be ruled By
Struggling his shoulders at those who
rule it. He reached two places o.
distinction in America, the Senate
aud the Department of the Interior
Personally, in intercourse he was al
ways an agreeable man, with elements
of the gentleman there, and with
some accomplishments such as music
But this old student ambition he
possessessed has followed him hard
making him discontinued, makinl
him inpatient with life, and he il
pas ling into 60 with no especial fol-
lowing, and with even the Germans
who now think for themselves, de.
taohed from him. If he had the wis,
dom to look around him and see the
men he has associated with he would
find ample reason to complain o.
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